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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Frese, Freis(e, v.¹ P.t. fresit, -yt, freassit, frizit, fruise. P.p. frosyn(e, frosin. [ME. frese, OE. fréosan.]

1. intr. To become ice or icy cold.(a, b) 1456 Hay I. 8/31.
The frost … fresis in the aire be fors of cald a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 19.
The frost freisit 1513 Doug. iii. i. 57.
For effeir my blude togidder fresyt 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xxix.
The talloun … is sa sappy, that it fresis nevir c1590 J. Stewart 44/31.
Quhyls vold he freise and fry 1596 Dalr. I. 46/13.
Albeit the frost be nevir sa gret, thai freis never 1611-57 Mure Misc. P. ii. 61.
I flam'd, I fruise, in love, in cold disdaine 16.. Hist. Kennedy 51.
The sam [blood] freassitt about his hairtt(c) a1400 Leg. S. vii. 628.
Sa betyd hyme … That fyrste fore grete ioy frosyne wes Ib. xviii. 1006.
I … wald be Hard frosyne as ony tre 1456 Hay I. 8/35.
The paganis … has thayr hertis all frosyn a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 1281.
O saull congelit in syn, Frosyn throw effectioun of fulische felicite 1531 Bell. Boece II. 179.
The lochis and rivaris stude frosin 1596 Dalr. I. 46/19.
To thow … the schokles of yce, frosin vpon thame

2. tr. To make into ice; to congeal. 1567 Sat. P. x. 325.
Lyk as the froist dois freis vp all fresche watter, Thay freisit him in Stirling c1590 J. Stewart 20/179.
O thocht, … that both dois birne and freis My blaiknit brest Ib. 88/324.
He did behold … The vofull vreat, quhilk frizit vp his bluid